Re: Move over NK
You have forgotten that NZ and the US fell out big time over NZ's nuclear free legislation way back in the mid '80s. Since that policy and legislation are still untouched (a shibboleth of NZ politics) and what happens in the ANZUS alliance is the Aussies exercise with the Yanks and then they Aussies exercise with the Kiwis teaching them how to interact with the nuclear armed and powered Yanks in an emergency.
Sure NZ is still in 5-eyes for entirely local pragmatic reasons and the US still runs Operation Deep Freeze to the Ice from Christchurch airport but that is so NZ can piggyback on it.
Otherwise NZ foreign policy is pretty much non-aligned. We have friends all over including in the Middle East (we sell them sheepmeat, butter and agritech) and they keep electing us to the Security Council etc at the UN. NZ was one of the countries in the SC who brokered that resolution condemning Israel that Obama didn't veto just before he left office.
Aside from it being the right thing to do NZ and Israeli relations are a bit frosty after Mossad agents were caught using cloned NZ passports, again.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
